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The Moon and Mars are going to do a show in July, although New Zealand does not see any event being dubbed the longest lunar eclipse of the century.
"It will be something that is worth it to be," says Ian Griffin, director and astronomer of the Otago Museum
. According to NASA, the Moon will be in complete eclipse – or in 103 minutes, but the Moon will enter the whole world shortly before settling in this country on the morning of July 28.
The New Zealand Royal Astronomical Society website 39, total eclipse – or moon of blood – starting in New Zealand a few seconds before 7:30 The sun then rises in Wellington just a minute later at 7:01 am, while the Moon takes a few minutes more after 7:58
New Zealand sees the first stages of the eclipse, with the Moon penetrating into the dim light – or The slight shadow – at 5:14 and the shadow in the shadows – at 6:24 am [19659004] A few days after the eclipse, Mars will also approach the Earth in 15 years, reaching 57.6 million ki lometers.
Comparing the average distance between the Earth and Mars is 2,225 million kilometers. The two planets are the furthest away from the rest of the world. The Griffin of the Otago Museum will be part of a joint project between the museum and the University of Canterbury at Mt. John Observatory on Lake Tekapo. week of July and post them on the internet. He hopes to see the lunar eclipse of the observatory, depending on the weather.
"Because it's the full moon, the moon goes down when the sun comes up." We will see the total eclipse as the moon goes down. And the moon will be in total eclipse, which will be a real cool sight, "says Ian.
"Also this week, Mars is the closest since 2003, so Mars will be really bright in the sky. "
Already Mars is exceptionally bright." If you go out after sunset, around 8 pm, he gets up in the eastern sky, incredibly bright and incredibly red, "says Ian." The night of the lunar eclipse, Mars is close to the Moon (in At the end of the night, you have a bright red Mars near a red moon in the sky ", he says.
March is red because it is covered with a layer of dust mainly made The Moon can appear red during an eclipse – and is sometimes called moon of blood – because during an eclipse, sunlight passes through the atmosphere from the Earth and refracts on the Moon, creating red blood.
"Basically, when Mars is in front of the Sun in the sky, which will be at the end of July, he gets up at bedtime of the sun and sets at sunrise. "It would be" very very bright "during the last week of July
would be possible to see the eclipse all over New Zealand, provided the sky is clear, Griffin said:
"All you need this morning, because the moon is quite low in the sky, you will need an unobstructed view towards the horizon, and you will also need good weather. "
Approaches close to Mars occur approximately every 26 months.
The closest approach to 2003 was the closest in nearly 60,000 years, with the two planets less than 55.8 km one from the other
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